South Africa RLE

Citation

Skowno AL, Monyeki MS. South Africa’s Red List of Terrestrial Ecosystems (RLEs). Land. 2021; 10(10):1048. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10101048

Links:

• South African terrestrial data and scripts in Suppements of https://doi.org/10.3390/land10101048
• National Biodiversity Assessmet
• Explore data at SANBI data portal BGIS
• Component datasets:
  • Terrestrial: http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/2675
  • Coastal: http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/2688
  • Marine: http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/2682
  • Sub-Antarctic: http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/2680
  • Estuary ecosystesm: http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/2684
  • Inland aquatic: http://bgis.sanbi.org/Projects/Detail/217
  • Historical extent: Terrestrial

Data access and download

Register and download from BGIS, then:

source ~/proyectos/CES/cesdata/env/project-env.sh

mkdir -p $GISDATA/ecosystems-status/regional/South-Africa
cd $GISDATA/ecosystems-status/regional/South-Africa

mv ~/Downloads/NBA2018_*zip $GISDATA/ecosystems-status/regional/South-Africa

We can extract all to a target directory:

mkdir -p $WORKDIR/South-Africa
for ARCH in $(ls $GISDATA/ecosystems-status/regional/South-Africa/*zip)
do 
  unzip -u '$ARCH' -d $WORKDIR/South-Africa
done